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Title: Adam Johnson oral history interview, 2020 May 7
Creator: Johnson, Adam Patrick
Date Created: 2020-05-07
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, College students, School shootings, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Campus violence, Campus police, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Commencement ceremonies
Description: Adam Johnson was a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte in April of 2019 and recounts his memory of a gunman opening fire inside his LBST class in the Kennedy building on April 30th. Mr. Johnson recalls his class being in th...

Title: Audrey Baran oral history interview, 2020 April 28
Creator: Baran, Audrey
Date Created: 2020-04-28
Subjects--Topical: College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Gun control, Homicide--Prevention, Compassion, Mental health services, Campus violence, Memorials, Collective memory, Dance, Choreography--Psychological aspects, Choreography--Studying and teaching (Higher), Choreographic collaboration
Description: Audrey Baran was an adjunct lecturer in UNC Charlotte's Department of Dance in April of 2019 when an active shooter took the lives of two students and injured four others. In the days following the April 30th tragedy, Ms. Baran held a yoga cl...

Title: Brenda G. Shue oral history interview, 2019 November 20
Creator: Shue, Brenda G.
Date Created: 2019-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Campus violence, Memorials, Collective memory, Commencement ceremonies
Description: Brenda Shue, Executive Assistant to UNC Charlotte's Chancellor Philip L. Dubois, talks about the events of April 30, 2019 and her role in the University's response to the tragedy. She begins the interview discussing her efforts to get Ch...

Title: Drew Pescaro oral history interview 1, 2020 November 19
Creator: Pescaro, Drew
Date Created: 2020-11-19
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Campus violence, First responders, Victims of violent crimes, Anxiety, Emotional support animals
Description: WARNING: This interview contains a first hand account of a mass shooting beginning at 27:42 and ending at 01:01:29. Drew Pescaro, one of six victims of the April 30 mass shooting at UNC Charlotte, describes his life before the shooting and his exp...

Title: Drew Pescaro oral history interview 2, 2020 December 10
Creator: Pescaro, Drew
Date Created: 2020-12-10
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Campus violence, Victims of violent crimes, Resilience (Personality trait), Grief, Post-traumatic stress disorder
Description: In this second of two interviews, Drew Pescaro, one of six victims of the April 30 mass shooting at UNC Charlotte, describes his short and long term recovery after the shooting, and the impacts that the event has had on his life. Mr. Pescaro detai...

Title: Elizabeth A. Hardin oral history interview 3, 2019 December 17
Creator: Hardin, Beth (Beth A.)
Date Created: 2019-12-17
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management, School shootings, College students, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, First responders, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police, Memorials, Communication in crisis management
Description: Elizabeth Hardin, Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs at UNC Charlotte, discusses the events of April 30, 2019, when a gunman opened fire in a classroom on campus. Ms. Hardin was at an off campus event at the Center City Building at the time of t...

Title: Erica Lennon oral history interview, 2020 May 11
Creator: Lennon, Erica
Date Created: 2020-05-11
Subjects--Topical: College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management
Description: Erica Lennon, Assistant Director for Outreach in Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at UNC Charlotte, discusses her experience on April 30th, 2019 and CAPS' role in providing psychological services for students. Ms. Lennon recalls w...

Title: Jeffrey Baker oral history interview, 2020 February 27
Creator: Baker, Jeffrey A. (Jeffrey Allen), 1958-
Date Created: 2020-02-27
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Emergency management--Public opinion, Emergency management, Universities and colleges--Administration, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, First responders, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police, Memorials, Communication in crisis management, Commencement ceremonies, Public safety
Description: Chief Jeffrey Baker shares his experience leading UNC Charlotte Police on the evening of April 30th, 2019, after reports of an active shooter in the Kennedy building. Chief Baker had finished the evening roll call for officers working the Waka Fla...

Title: Jesh Humphrey oral history interview, 2020 April 23
Creator: Humphrey, Jesh, 1979-
Date Created: 2020-04-23
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, Emergency management, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Freedom of Information Act (United States)
Description: James "Jesh" Humphrey, Vice Chancellor of Institutional Integrity and General Counsel at UNC Charlotte, discusses the events of April 30th 2019 and his role in aiding the University's emergency management response and later communication and ...

Title: Joan Lorden oral history interview, 2019 December 17
Creator: Lorden, Joan F.
Date Created: 2019-12-17
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Universities and colleges--Administration, Emergency management, First responders, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Commencement ceremonies
Description: UNC Charlotte Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Joan Lorden, recalls her experience of the tragic events of April 30, 2019. Dr. Lorden notes that she was on campus in her office discussing University business with Chief of Staf...

Title: John Bogdan oral history interview 2020 January 9
Creator: Bogdan, John V. (John Vincent)
Date Created: 2020-01-09
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Commencement ceremonies, Emergency management--Public opinion, Emergency management, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police
Description: John Bogdan, Associate Vice Chancellor for Safety and Security, shares his personal account of working to manage the campus emergency response to the April 30th shooting, while headquartered in the Police and Facilities Management building on UNC ...

Title: John Cox oral history interview 1, 2020 May 18
Creator: Cox, John M., 1963-
Date Created: 2020-05-18
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Campus violence, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Public safety, Minimum wage, Psychic trauma
Description: John Cox, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies,and Director of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares his experience of April 30th, 2019. Dr. Cox discus...

Title: Jules Keith-Le oral history interview, 2020 May 12
Creator: Keith-Le, Jules, 1978-
Date Created: 2020-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Homicide--Prevention, Compassion, Mental health services, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Public safety
Description: Jules Keith-Le shares her experience surrounding the events of April 30th, 2019 as an Instructional Design and Technology Specialist for the Center For Teaching and Learning at UNC Charlotte. Ms. Keith-Le worked in the Kennedy building and managed...

Title: Kalei Woodford oral history interview, 2020 January 30
Creator: Woodford, Kalei
Date Created: 2020-01-30
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Gun control, Campus violence
Description: UNC Charlotte senior Kalei Woodford discusses her experiences on April 30 2019, and reflects on the subsequent campus community responses to the tragic shootings of that day. Despite having spent the semester studying abroad, Ms. Woodford was on c...

Title: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones oral history interview, 2020 May 20
Creator: Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel
Date Created: 2020-05-20
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Memorials, Collective memory, Campus violence, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Compassion
Description: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones shares his experience as a professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at UNC Charlotte on April 30th, 2019. Dr. Perez-Quinones and his partner were both employed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and S...

Title: Philip L. Dubois oral history interview 9, 2020 February 25
Creator: Dubois, Philip L.
Date Created: 2020-02-25
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Campus violence, Memorials, Collective memory, First responders, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police, Commencement ceremonies
Description: Dr. Philip L. Dubois, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) discusses the April 30th shooting and the campus response to the tragedy in both the immediate aftermath and in the long-term. This included crisis c...

Title: Richard Gundacker oral history interview, 2020 January 15
Creator: Gundacker, Richard
Date Created: 2020-1-15
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, First responders, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police
Description: Patrol Lieutenant (Patrol Sergeant at the time of the event), Richard Gundacker shares his experience on the evening of April 30th, 2019, as the first UNC police officers to arrive at the Kennedy building after reports of an active shooter, and as...

Title: Sarah Smyre oral history interview, 2020 January 21
Creator: Smyre, Sarah
Date Created: 2020-01-21
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Emergency management, Mental health services, First responders, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Campus police, Memorials, Communication in crisis management
Description: Captain Sarah Smyre (Lieutenant Smyre at the time) shares her experience on the evening of April 30th, 2019, as one of the UNC first police officers to arrive on campus after reports of an active shooter in the Kennedy building. Originally assigne...

Title: Susan Harden oral history interview, 2020 April 15
Creator: Harden, Susan B.
Date Created: 2020-04-15
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Emergency management--Public opinion, Universities and colleges--Administration, Gun control, Homicide--Prevention, Compassion, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Memorials, Public safety
Description: Susan Harden was a UNC Charlotte professor and Mecklenburg County Commissioner in April of 2019 when an active shooter took the lives of two students and injured four others on campus. Dr. Harden discusses how she responded to the shooting as both...

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